Pseudagoliinus oreotragi ( ENDRŐDI, 1978 ) DellacaSa & DellacaSa, 2002

DellacaSa, M. & DellacaSa, G., 2002, Systematic Redefinition Of Taxa Belonging To The Genera Ahermodontus Báguena, 1930 And Ammoecius Mulsant, 1842, With Description Of The New Genus Vladimirellus (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48 (4), pp. 269-316 : 272

Pseudagoliinus oreotragi ( ENDRŐDI, 1978) , comb. n.

Aphodius (Ammoecius) oreotragi ENDRŐDI, 1978: 181 .

Type locality: Shneeukop, SW Cap. [ South Africa.]

Type depository: Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

Remarks – This taxon shows most of the distinguishing characters of the genus Pseudagoliinus BORDAT, 1994 . Being monotypic at the time of its description, the diagnosis of Pseudagoliinus was obviously created on the basis of its type species, Pseudagoliinus sinuatipes (BORDAT, 1994) . However, some generic characters (e.g. elytral interstices apically subcariniform and sharply bordered at each side) do not fit with those of P. oreotragi , thus these characters have to be downgraded to species level. The shape of the parameres is particularly significant, because in P. oreotragi they have an elongate apical seta, while they are glabrous in P. sinuatipes and in P. tonderae ( ENDRŐDI, 1980) . It must be noted that this difference is also found in the sibling species of other genus-group taxa. For example, it is found in Pseudopharaphodius anthrax (GERSTAECKER, 1871) and Pseudopharaphodius kaszabi (ENDRŐDI, 1957) and in Lorditomaeus bifidus SCHMIDT, 1908 and Lorditomaeus similis BORDAT, 1996 .